Can I take your number? <a href=" http://www.memories-book.co.uk/blog/compare-and-contrast-essay-between-two-cars/ ">essayan</a> The current debate about the interest rate on subsidized student loans is a case study in dysfunctional politics. In the nation known for its visionary higher education ideas, from land-grant colleges to the GI Bill, we've spent months fixated on this decidedly narrow policy question: should the rate on subsidized Stafford loans be 3.4 percent, 6.8 percent or somewhere in between?